ISRAEL & JORDAN

ISRAEL&JORDAN    
13 DAYS
LAND ONLY

For travel agents and companions
Departs every WEDNESDAY 2022 -2023

Also available ISRAEL 8 days, JORDAN 6 days
Israel and Jordan in combination with other Mediterranean counties

AMMAN / AJLOUN / JERASH / MADABA / MT. NEBO / WADI RUM / PETRA / DEAD SEA /
JERUSALEM / JORDAN VALLEY / TIBERIAS / SEA OF GALILEE / GOLAN HEIGHTS / NAZARETH /
CANA / SAFED / ACRE / TEL AVIV

Day 1 Amman
WELCOME TO JORDAN!  
Upon arrival at Queen Alia Airport, our representative will meet and assist you through the customs and immigration procedures. Your will be driven to your hotel in Amman for dinner and overnight.
Overnight HARIR PALACE HOTEL (or similar), Amman

Day 2 Ajlun, Jerash
After breakfast at the hotel, we will go for Amman city tour we will visit the Amphitheater the Citadel then drive for the mighty Crusaders Castle Of Ajlun (Qalat Rabadh) 45 minutes north of Amman, This is an Islamic Castle built high on a hill overlooking the entire Jordan valley below.

Departure at noon going through the pine forests and olive groves until you reach the ancient Greco Roman city of Jerash. The guide will take you for a tour through the colonnaded street, amphitheater, churches, temples and the vast Roman Forum. Return to the hotel  for dinner and overnight.
Overnight HARIR PALACE HOTEL (or similar), Amman

Day 3 Amman - Petra
After breakfast at the hotel, departure for a tour to south of Amman to visit Madaba and Mount Nebo the highest in the Moabit range which has been a center for pilgrimages since earliest christian times. Madaba has some of the finest Byzantine mosaics in the world including the famous 6th century mosaic map of Palestine.

Continue drive via the kings highway to Wadi Al Mujib, Take a deep and majestic cut through rugged highlands that drains into the Dead Sea, then continue to visit Kerak Castle. It is located on the south side of the town of Kerak, 124 km south of Amman.

Kerak is the largest late Islamic castle in Jordan. It was initially constructed in the Crusader period and expanded and refortified during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods.  

After that continue to Petra, for dinner and overnight.
Overnight PETRA PANORAMA HOTEL, (or similar), Petra  

Day 4  Petra
After breakfast, full day tour to the Red Rose City Petra, upon arrival you will begin an unforgettable trip on horse back till the siq after by foot till you reach the Treasury. The local guide will give a brief history of  the city the greatest tourist attraction in the Middle East. The Nabateans carved this capital of theirs from the living rock of the surrounding mountains in Petra. Among other monuments for the visitors today are Pharaoh's Castle, the Triumphal arch, the Amphitheater and Monastery,

Return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
Overnight PETRA PANORAMA HOTEL, (or similar), Petra  

Day 5 Petra – Wadi Rum – Dead Sea
After breakfast drive drive to little Petra (Al-Beidah) 8 km from Petra the ruins of the ancient village date back some 9000 years and, like Jericho constitute one of the oldest archaeological sites in the Middle East.

Proceed 105 km south to Wadi Rum a vast, silent landscape of ancient riverbeds and pastle-colored, the largest and most magnificent of Jordan's desert.
Visit with a two hours 4X4 tour inside the desert then drive down to the lowest point on Earth the Dead Sea 400 meters below sea level.

Arrive ans stay at the Dead Sea beach and pool. There will have a chance to try and swim in the buoyant waters or cover yourself in mud said to restore your health and beauty. Dinner and overnight at the Dead Sea.
Overnight DEAD SEA HOTEL, Dead Sea

Day 6 Monday Dead Sea / Amman  / Allenby Bridge / Jerusalem  
After breakfast transfer to the Allenby Bridge

 WELCOME to ISRAEL !!!
After you arrive, clear customs and pick up your luggage. Cross over to the Israeli side where you will be met by our representative.  That person will be holding a sign with your name on it and transfer you to Jerusalem.

Afternoon at leisure.
Overnight GRAND COURT JERUSALEM or RAMADA HOTEL, or similar, Jerusalem

Day 7 Tuesday Jerusalem (New city)
After breakfast drive to Mt. Scopus for view of Jerusalem, then to the Garden of Gethsemane and Church of the Agony. Drive to Mt. Zion for a visit to the tomb of King David, the Room of the Last Supper and Dormition Abbey. 

Sightseeing in the new city including the Israel Museum, the Shrine of the Book, with the famous Dead Sea scrolls, and the new Supreme Court building. Proceed to Mt’ Herzl and Yad Vashem (the memorial to the six million Jews who were killed in the Holocaust).

Then visit the model of the Heordian city of Jerusalem dating back to the time of the Second Temple. Visit the synagogue with Marc Chagall stained glass windows at the Hadassah Medical Center, and then via Ein Karem (the birth place of John the Baptist). Return to hotel. 
Overnight GRAND COURT JERUSALEM or RAMADA HOTEL, or similar, Jerusalem

Day 8 Wednesday Jerusalem (Old city)
Morning walk through the Jaffa Gate to the City: the renewed Jewish Quarter, the Western Wall, the Temple area, then colorful bazaars, Via Dolorosa, and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.

Continue to Bethlehem to visit Rachel’s Tomb and the Church of the Nativity and return to Jerusalem for overnight. 
Overnight GRAND COURT JERUSALEM or RAMADA HOTEL, or similar, Jerusalem

Day 9 Thursday Jerusalem / Galilee
Morning departure from Jerusalem and drive north via Jericho, the oldest city in the world. Then through the Jordan Valley and the new settlements to Beit Shean. Visit the excavations of this beautiful Roman Decapolis city. Proceed to Tiberias, the old center of Jewish learning.

Drive along the shores of the Sea of Galilee to Capernaum to visit the ruins of the ancient synagogue. Continue to a Kibbutz hotel for overnight. 
Overnight HAGOSHRIM HOTEL KIBBUTZ, Galilee

Day 10 Friday Galilee
Drive to the Golan Heights. Visit the former Syrian fortifications, Birkat Ram, and the Druze. Continue to the Golan Heights.  Via Banias, source of the Jordan River proceed to Kiryat Shmone and the Hula Valley to Safed.
Overnight HAGOSHRIM HOTEL KIBBUTZ, Galilee

Day 11 Saturday Galilee /Tel Aviv
After breakfast leave the Kibbutz hotel for Acre to visit the old, famous Crusader stronghold and medieval fortifications. Continue to Haifa, including the Bahai Shrine,  Persian Garden and Mount Carmel for a panoramic view of the city.

Proceed southwards to Caesarea to visit the Roman theater and the Crusader fortress. Drive via Natanya to Tel Aviv.
Overnight METROPOLITIAN HOTEL, or similar, Tel Aviv

Day 12 Sunday Tel Aviv
Day at leisure in Tel Aviv.
Overnight METROPOLITIAN HOTEL, or similar, Tel Aviv

Day 13 Monday Tel Aviv / departure
Transfer to the airport for departure.

 INCLUSIVE FEATURES in Jordan
All transfers and sightseeing by PRIVATE A/C car with ENGLISH speaking driver
Breakfast and dinner daily
Four star hotel (or similar) as per itinerary
ENGLISH speaking local guides at all sites
2 hours 4x4 Tour In Wadi Rum
Taxes and entrance fees   
Visa fees at Amman airport free of charge (we need full passport details in advance)

INCLUSIVE FEATURES for Israel
Transfers, and multilingual sightseeing by motor coach in Israel
Breakfast and dinner daily (except Monday night in Jerusalem no dinner)
Four hotels (or similar) as per itinerary
Transfers at Alleny-by Bridge into Israel
Taxes and service charges

NOTE In Israel you will be traveling with regular passenger but paying travel agent rates           
In Jordan you will travel by PRIVATE car with English speaking driver.

COST PER PERSON – LAND ONLY  
Low Season
Based on double occupancy
Travel agents rate from $3200.00
Companions rate from $3300.00

High Season Supplement- $100 (US) per person

Peak Season Supplement - $250.00 (US) per person

You will be traveling with regular passengers in Israel but at travel agent rates

EXTENSIONS and UPGRADES available